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    severe weather conditions such as heat waves, droughts and floods. As a result, climate change is very damaging for aquatic environments both marine and freshwater, which effects the habitats for endless different aquatic organisms. A quarter of the marine life on the planet live in coral reefs. [2] They provide a habitat for some species and a food source for others. These are highly important aquatic systems that are being damaged by climate change. Coral reefs are formed over many years, after coral

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    Polar Ice Caps Melting

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    In this essay I express how the melting of the polar ice caps in the North Pole is affecting the survival of habitats of organisms around the world. The common misconception is that only polar bears are suffering from global warming. Because of rapid climate change in multiple areas around the globe, many organisms are unable to live in their normal habitat. They are unable to adapt to these new conditions as fast as they are changing. There are many effects of global warming that is affecting the

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    adopted, a coalition of support for change and implementation has not been built or maintained. Among the critical factors is how the local urban government lacks financial and management capacities to respond to the challenge of urban poverty (UN-HABITAT 2010). Added to the existing trepidations in this urban melting pot, city and settlement dwellers are also experiencing ethnic clashes and a rapid increase in crime and violence (Storey 2010, p. 8-10). This has resulted from the unplanned growth and

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    grass in the area the we trapped. Kentucky bluegrass makes a good habitat and cover for all three species. We saw the lowest abundance of all three species in areas of dense tree cover and shelter belts. The reason for less rodent abundance within the dense tree cover could be because predators are more likely found within this habitat. We found that the meadow vole also was most abundant in the hayed grass with tree cover habitat. Meadow vole utilize surface nests so by having the hayed grass they

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    Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a prime example of this. The Atlantic Forest of Brazil provides habitat for a wide variety of endemic species, but sadly it is one of the most endangered biomes in the world (biotropica). One of the endemic species of this biome is the Golden Lion Tamarin. A number of different human activities including deforestation for lumber extraction to agriculture, cattle ranching, and carchoal production, have

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    A current threat to the Mojave desert is its renewable energy sources, or windmills as people most know them as. About 50,000 acres of desert tortoise habitat has been built over, mostly in California. Dunes which house many Mojave Fringe toed lizards have been impacted, as well as windmills that have been built in the way of golden eagle habitats. This causes many collision between the birds, a threat that many of them face. Many of these renewable energy sources people are able to see heading down

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    the factors yet remain to be proven. Although climate warming may not be the main direct cause of these drastic deaths, it influences almost all the other deleterious factors from disease to habitat loss. Amphibians are seen to be more sensitive to climate change that any other vibrates as they show habitat

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    characterization of “take” in Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act to symbolize an action which basically kills or injures wildlife. Under the statutory language of the Interior Department Regulation, these actions possibly will include considerable habitat conversion or mortification

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    shaped antlers. The Female has a different colour coat during the winter it loses its spots and goes grey. The Normans released the fallow deer into Britain they have lived in wild herds for centuries in areas like forest as Epping and Dean. The habitats The fallow deer likes grassy clearings in woodland to graze on. The Fallow deer inhabits mature mixed woodland with dense undergrowth. The life cycles The fallow deer matting season know as ruts begins at October and last about the month but

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    The black bear, ursus americanus, roams in different places in America including Texas. Its North America the black bears habitat ranges from Mexico all the way to Canada. In the state of Texas, the black bear is under threatened status, it also has the same status under the United States (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department). According to the Texas Parks Wildlife Department (2016) in the state of Texas they are usually found in the Western area in the Trans Pecos ecoregion. The Texas Parks and Wildlife

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